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Management Ange Postecoglou

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Stag said:
Eddie Howe : "We spent two weeks working on set pieces for this game, working to our strengths"

Ange : "We dont practice set pieces"

Says it all, just totally utterly damning - im not saying we win stuff like Howe has just done IF we practice set pieces but its indicative of the lack of coaching and preparation we have now. It was just about when he said that I totally lost faith in him.
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And yet we actually have one of the better defensive and offensive set piece records this season in the league so far
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Ed Vanderlay said:
Ange is reminding me now of the Geography teacher at my old school who wanted to coach one of the younger teams . The PE teacher always managed the oldest two teams , the fat geography teacher managed us for a year when I was 12-13 . He knew even less about football than he knew about copper mining in Africa
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If you’d have given him a second season, the geography teacher might have won you a trophy. Albeit it might have been copperware.
 
Lickher said:
You know what’s funny?

For all the praise Ange gets for his press conferences, does he ever actually talk footballing tactics?

I swear to god I can’t actually recall him ever reflecting on tactical aspects of the game. He just comes up with pseudo intellectual non football related bullshit, feels sorry for himself that people would dare to doubt him, moans about injuries, and has a go at reporters.

You can’t even call him a fraud, he is what he is - a bang average football manager who has won some trophies in completely insignificant leagues and has never been tested at the top level. Fair play to him Levy took a punt on a complete unknown, Ange must be loving the big salary which will set him up for life.
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The odd thing is how seldom the writers talk tactics. I think all the philosophical discussions that people liked during the first season have worn thin in the second.
 
AlabamaSpur said:
does Newcastle winning today somehow make this worse? It’s seems worse.
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It IS worse....
Because whenever we've played them in SF or Finals, we haven't been able to disprove the idea that they are some sort of mythical, undefeatable Entity that cannot be vanquished...
We always revert to type, and don't really believe we can ever beat them.

...and IF we ever do, there's a National outcry about some decision or other, to either deny us any real credit, or to ensure it doesn't happen again for a while!

Newcastle rock up and it just FELT like they were gonna win. They believed it, and so did Liverpool by the looks of it.

We've never really done that... Be it in Madrid, Wembley, or WHL...
and on the occasions we have beaten them, it's never really made much difference to the outcome of the season...

Winning in the league occasionally, or in the 1st leg of a 2-legged tie counts for shit when they still win the Big prizes at the end of the season.

Same with City, this 'curse' we seemed to have on them, never really stopped them from winning everything in their path... but when we HAVE beaten them in the Cups, again, it counts for shit if WE can't take advantage and WIN THE ACTUAL TROPHY we've just knocked them out of, and get knocked out ourselves in the next round.
 
1882 said:
It IS worse....
Because whenever we've played them in SF or Finals, we haven't been able to disprove the idea that they are some sort of mythical, undefeatable Entity that cannot be vanquished...
We always revert to type, and don't really believe we can ever beat them.

...and IF we ever do, there's a National outcry about some decision or other, to either deny us any real credit, or to ensure it doesn't happen again for a while!

Newcastle rock up and it just FELT like they were gonna win. They believed it, and so did Liverpool by the looks of it.

We've never really done that... Be it in Madrid, Wembley, or WHL...
and on the occasions we have beaten them, it's never really made much difference to the outcome of the season...

Winning in the league occasionally, or in the 1st leg of a 2-legged tie counts for shit when they still win the Big prizes at the end of the season.

Same with City, this 'curse' we seemed to have on them, never really stopped them from winning everything in their path... but when we HAVE beaten them in the Cups, again, it counts for shit if WE can't take advantage and WIN THE ACTUAL TROPHY we've just knocked them out of, and get knocked out ourselves in the next round.
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Slot has had a relative cakewalk start to Prem life so far but getting dumped from CL and now the EFL will be a wake-up call for him.

Good competitors can stay focused enough on the task at hand to overcome mental boogiemen. I wonder if Michael Jordan was worried that the Bulls hadn't won enough before he went on his tear of winning 6 rings in the NBA? Highly doubtful the man entertained such thoughts. One of the tasks of Levy and the scouting team should be finding these types of individuals to help improve the club.
 
Will it be Sunday night emergency board meeting convened’ or ‘Monday morning press conference hastily called’? Saying that doesn’t Levy have form for a Tuesday morning sacking?

Either way, put the useless Aussie failure out of his (and ours) misery ASAP please…
 
Please get this man out of the Club.

Absolutely can't stand him. Forgot for the first time in 25 years we were even playing today.

He's making me hate watching us. Bad, very bad SIGN Mr Levy.
 
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